Specialist cheese makers are welcoming a decision by the New Zealand and Australian health ministers to allow a wider range of cheeses to be made from raw milk.
The decision was made yesterday at a meeting of the ministers in Auckland, where for many years the former beer baron Sir Douglas Myers campaigned to allow raw-milk cheeses to be sold in this country, because they have a better flavour.
The new rules require that the raw milk cheese does not support the growth of disease-causing bacteria, and that there is no rise in the level of those during processing.